“The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation for ... the protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of social insurance adapted to American use.” HumansStatesUseHomeAgeNationsSocialJusticeDutyResourcesProtectionSupremeOld AgeEmploymentSicknessEnlightenedAdoptionConservationPledgeAdaptedHazardsHuman ResourcesHome Life Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.” PeopleCareEarthThreeJusticeFiveFourTalentSkillsTrainingPercentHundredResourcesEnglandTwentiesWestIncludingLawyerMedicalNot SureGermanyJapanConcentrationOne TimeThree TimesNinetyTwenty OneMedical CareWest Germany Author:Jimmy Carter
“The legal system doesn't work. Or more accurately, it doesn't work for anyone except those with the most resources. Not because the system is corrupt. I don't think our legal system (at the federal level, at least) is at all corrupt. I mean simply because the costs of our legal system are so astonishingly high that justice can practically never be done.” ThinkingMeanDoneJusticeLevelsCostResourcesLegal System Author:Lawrence Lessig
“If one examines the American idea of freedom, the individual, free enterprise, their Constitution, their political and economic structures as well as their mode of exploiting their natural resources, all these are shrouded in the idea of justice.” IfsWellsIdeasPoliticalPoliticsIndividualNaturalJusticeEconomyEconomicResourcesConstitutionStructureLiberalismEnterpriseNatural ResourcesFree Enterprise Author:Ndabaningi Sithole
“In the USA, where so many people compete for one and the same thing, where job opportunities, residential facilities, and food resources have to be spread over so many people, the question of justice becomes more imperative than ever before if communal and individual life is to be made possible and enjoyable.” PeopleIfsMadeWisdomJobsLife IsOpportunityPoliticsIndividualJusticeEconomyResourcesSpreadUsaLiberalismImperativesEnjoyableFacilityIndividual LifeJob Opportunities Author:Ndabaningi Sithole
“We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.” NeedsUseHomeJusticeMillionsSharePlanetsDemandResourcesSpeciesSustainability Book:Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace Source: Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace
“Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.” IfsMenNeedsLawHumanityIndividualJusticeAnimalTerribleMembersResourcesBeastSavages Author:Aristotle
“America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.” PeopleHeartAmericaLawHumanityJusticeUnited StatesMaterialsResourcesJustice For All Book:Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
“That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do with sustainability of cities. The ability of cities to, over time, remain in balance with the resource streams that are available to them, and they have to do with social justice and equity of the fundamental conditions of satisfactory citizenship.” ThinkingImportantIdeasSocialJusticeAbilityCitiesVisionConditionsBalanceResourcesSocial JusticeFundamentalsAvailableStreamsSustainabilityCitizenshipEquityUtopian Author:William J. Mitchell
“The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.” WayCountryPurposeJusticeResourcesEducationalTragicTruth And JusticePurpose Of EducationTrue Purpose Author:Anne Sullivan Macy
“...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to corporatize the crops we grow, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the dreams we dream, corporate globalization needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular reforms and quell the mutinies. Corporate Globalization-or shall we call it by its name?-Imperialism-needs a press that pretends to be free. It needs courts that pretend to dispense justice.” NeedsCountryDreamGovernmentFightingNamesGrowsWaterJusticePoorDealsRichAirDrinkResourcesCourtPressesInternationalCornersBreatheReformCorporateLoyalImperialismGlobalizationCropsSweetheartDisparityMutinyConfederationAuthoritarian Government Author:Arundhati Roy
“When these resources are degraded or polluted, then there are fewer of them for the rest of us, and then we start competing for them and eventually as we compete, there are those of us, who have the capacity, who have the ability to be the controllers, to decide who accesses them, how much they access, and eventually there is a conflict. Those who feel marginalized, those who feel excluded, eventually react in an effort to get their own justice, and we have conflict.” FeelsJusticeAbilityEffortConflictResourcesCapacityAccessFewerCompetingExcludedMarginalizedControllers Author:Wangari Maathai
“The way in which we can promote peace, is by promoting sustainable management of our resources, equitable distribution of these resources, and that the only way you can actually do that, is that then you have to have a political, economic system that facilitates that. And then you get into the issues of human rights, justice, economic justice, social justice, and good governance or democratic governance. That's how it ties up.” WayHumansPoliticalSocialJusticeIssuesRightsEconomicResourcesManagementSocial JusticeDemocraticHuman RightsTiesDistributionGovernancePromotingEconomic SystemsFacilitateEconomic JusticeEquitableGood Governance Author:Wangari Maathai
“Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I'd ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.” IfsWayChildrenRealityMotherPoliticsStrongJusticePoorCompanyFamilyFivePlansRiskGenerationsPolicyHealthMetsEqualEthicsResourcesHuman RightsIdeologyDisabilityEqual RightsConstituentsInsurance Companies Author:Nancy Pelosi
“We talked about the resources that the justice department has available to help them -- the technical assistance to ensure that we're diffusing situations, not encouraging them to spiral out of control.” HelpingJusticeSituationResourcesAvailableDepartmentAssistanceSpirals Author:Valerie Jarrett
“I think, again, on issues of energy, how are we going to fully utilize our energy resources in this country? What is the role of the federal government in higher education? What kind of justices would you appoint to the Supreme Court, not just because we have a vacancy now, but at least one or two potentially in the next four to eight years?” ThinkingYearsKindTwoCountryGovernmentNextEnergyJusticeRolesIssuesFourHigherResourcesCourtEightSupremeFederal GovernmentSupreme CourtHigher EducationVacancy Author:Marco Rubio